psychosis

Psychosis is a condition that affects a person’s mind and causes changes to the way that they think, feel and behave. A person who experiences psychosis may be unable to distinguish between reality and their imagination. People who are experiencing psychosis are sometimes referred to as psychotic. They may have hallucinations (where you see or hear things that are not there) and/or delusions (where you believe things that are untrue).

Our psychosis Blogs

Long term recovery and resilience in psychosis: the iHOPE-20 study

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Jun 5 2019

Posted by
UCL Psychiatry MSc

A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise the iHOPE-20 study, which looks at relationships between and prospective predictors of remission, clinical recovery, personal recovery and resilience 20 years on from a first episode psychosis.

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How can digital technology help close the mortality gap for people with severe mental illness?

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May 23 2019

Posted by
Lina Gega

Lina Gega from the Closing the Gap Network explores a recent review of digital technology for health promotion, which looks at opportunities to address excess mortality in people living with severe mental illness.

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Continuity of care: a luxury or need?

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May 6 2019

Posted by
Lucía Almazán Sánchez>,
Derek Tracy

LucÍa Almazán Sánchez and Derek Tracy appraise a new paper in the British Journal of Psychiatry on continuity of care and clinical outcomes in the community for people with severe mental illness.

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Daily skunk cannabis use associated with a 5-fold increase in psychosis risk

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Apr 30 2019

Posted by
Luke Sheridan Rains

Luke Sheridan-Reins explores a recent paper on the contribution of cannabis use to variation in the incidence of psychotic disorder across Europe.

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Rates of psychotic disorders: huge variability and important risk factors

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Apr 10 2019

Posted by
Emma O'Neill

Emma O’Neill summarises a systematic review and meta-analysis of the incidence of psychotic disorders, which looks at the distribution of rates and the influence of gender, urbanicity, immigration and socio-economic level.

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Smoking cessation for people with severe mental illness? “Oh yes they can!” SCIMITAR+

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Apr 9 2019

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David Shiers>,
Peter Byrne

David Shiers and Peter Byrne summarise the new SCIMITAR+ trial out today in The Lancet Psychiatry, which evaluates a bespoke smoking cessation intervention for people with severe mental illness.

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Is self-management ready for the mental health mainstream?

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Mar 29 2019

Posted by
Josefien Breedvelt>,
Peter Coventry

Josefien Breedvelt and Peter Coventry explore a new systematic review and meta-analysis of self-management interventions for people with severe mental illness.

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Open Dialogue: what’s the evidence?

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Mar 15 2019

Posted by
Sameer Jauhar,
M Kripalani>,
James Chivers

Sameer Jauhar and colleagues critically assess the evidence for Open Dialogue, presented in a recent narrative review of quantitative and qualitative studies, which finds that most current studies are highly biased and of low quality, and there is an absence of clear data on effectiveness.

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Can smoking cessation improve cognitive functioning in people with psychosis?

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Mar 14 2019

Posted by
Dafni Katsampa

Dafni Katsampa explores a recent prospective cohort study that investigates the association between smoking behaviour and cognitive functioning in patients with psychosis, their siblings and healthy control subjects.

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